View source for Tracery

[https://tracery.io/ Tracery]

Short description from the website
"Tracery is a super-simple tool and language to generate text, by GalaxyKate. It's been used by middle school students, humanities professors, indie game developers, professional bot makers, and lots of regular people, too."

* PROS: 
**wide variability and a lot of creative use cases.
**Open Source Javascript library
* CONS:
**basic coding skills required

== Use cases ==

Students can experiment with procedural generation of text and build:
*a story generator, 
*twitterbots, 
*news headline generators of a particular journal (parody - media education)
*critically imitate rethorical Twitter statements of a public figure of their own choice

== How to use it ==

See the [http://www.crystalcodepalace.com/traceryTut.html tutorial]

== Replacement for ==

more complex twitterbot software

== Bibliography ==

*[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_14 Tracery: An Author-Focused Generative Text Tool]
*[https://github.com/galaxykate/tracery/tree/tracery2 Github repository]
== External links ==

[[Category:Programming]]
[[Category:Free/libre/open]]